The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-19
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
what the Newspapers Say About Ne

what the Newspapers Say About Mon
and Women Of Note.
Mr. Spurgeon Is battling with the gout
President Washington made point Of din
ing on Goldfish every Saturday.
Thomas Stevens, the around the world
bicyclist, has arrived at Shanghai
It takes year to officially inter king of
Spain Poor Alfonso is still unburied-
Mrs Mcclellan, the widow OF the general,
has now established herself at Florence for
the winter.
Gen Dan Sickles attends every amusement
within his reach each evening in New York
He generally has ladies with him.
King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian islands,
has gambled away s74, 900 deposited by poor
people in the Postal savings bank.
Mr. Gay, of Louisiana, one of the million
aires OF the house of representatives, has
about 81 10000 invested in sugar planta-
tons
Even such blase man as the Prince Of
Wales can enjoy a new sensation Il R II.
has recently smoked a cigarette made of to-
bacco grown in England
The ex-Eupress Eugene is living in villa
at Posilippo, outside Haples, in close retire
ment She is feeble and much aged
The last book that Gen. Logan read was the
biography of Gen. r. E. Lee. He finished
the book the day before his fatal sickness
began
The widely circulated item to the effect that
Mark Twain is worth 81 500, 600 is not true.
Mr.. Clemens is a wealthy man, but his fortune
does not nearly reach that figure.
Brick Pomeroy is the subject of compli-
mentary article and fattering picture in the
current number of The Pail Mall Budget,
which terms him decidedly man of mark. "
Lord Aylesbury went out hunting the other
day. but out of respect to his lately deceased
grandfather followed the hounds in a dog
cart. Such devotion and reverence are truly
touching.
OF the members of the German imperial
family Emperor William is the only one who
does not use visiting cards He has never de
waited from his old custom of announcing his
intended visits by the court courier.
Admirers of Ouida's unwholesome writings
on our side of the water viii be interested in
knowing that she is now soured and dis
contented old woman, practically destitute of
human sympathy and companionship, and
deriving little or no comfort from the fame
which her work has secured her.
William NJ Singerly was recently twitted
by friend on the fact that, although he pos
sessed a $3.50 900 farm, he would lose much of
that in the settlement of his estate. Lose itlF
exclaimed Singerly in his quick way. II won't
lose a cent of it'll lie dead"
T. Harrison Garrett, of Baltimore, has pre-
sented to the Society for the Protection of
Children from Cruelty and immortality a
handsome property about four miles from the
city, known as HAL Springs" 1t contains
thirty-six acres, and is improved by large
hotel building. The cost of the property was
$4,000
Miss Amelia Hand, of Cape May Court
House, N. j., was great churchgoer when in
health. Now that she is an invalid, she has es-
tablished telephone connection between her
room and the Methodist church The trans
mitter is on the pulpit cushion, and Miss
Hand can hear everything that is said, and
also the singing.
Mr.. Lorillard is very much annoyed be-
cause Mrs. James Brown Potter dated the let
ter she wrote recommending a certain cream
from Tuxedo Park. He feels that this exclu-
sive place of residence has in measure been
used an advertising medium-that it in a
measure indorses the Greenland he is Ill at
ease.
Nine Nevada and Mile. Van Zandt sang
together recently at the English Roman Cath
olic church, Avenue Hoche, Paris, before a
distinguished assemblage. Mime. Nevada had
not sung in Paris before since her marriage.
1t was reported of her, as of Mile. Van Zandt
that she had lost her voice. Neither report
is true, as the voices of both singers are at
present of greater compass and richer than
ever.
Jabez Beaumont, of Easttown Pa, who
has just celebrated his 92d birthday, thinks
that he will never die. He says that when he
was young man a woman offered him @
drink, saying: That's likely to kill you II
you drink it and recover from the effects you
will never die" He drank, was quite ill., but
recovered, and now in his vigorous old age is
firmly convinced that he will live forever.
1t is reported that the queen of Roumania
known as poetess under the name of Car.
men Sylvia, intends to give weekly lectures on
modern literature in the girls high school al
Bucharest. The queen, who is a member Of
the Roumania academy, was dissatisfied with
the instructions on this subject, and had al
ready given private lessons to favored pupils
but this excited SO much jealousy that, after
obtaining the kings consent, she decided tc
take charge of the entire literary instruction
The report that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie ha:
abandoned his favorite project of building q
typical Scottish castle near Cresson, Pa, il
unfounded. The work will be proceeded with
in the spring. Mr.. Carnegie recently sale
that he was glad he had been sick for one
reason-because he had had plenty of oppor
tunity for thought, and had come to the con
clusion to ma g the castle fireproof, some
thing which had not occurred to him before
He win take this precaution; he says, for tn,
safety of the expensive library which he con
templates placing in it.